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sdilley14 · Jun 23, 2006, 04:43 AM

Ok, so I have my iPod set to sync my address book and photo albums right now. I hate having it sync the entire music library. However, I would like it to sync a few playlists. I go into the iPod preferences and check "Automatically Update Selected Playlists Only", and the "Are you sure you want to enable automatic update? All existing content on your iPod will be replaced with you iTunes music library." I really don't want to reconfigure my whole iPod just to get a few playlists to sync. Has anyone tried this? If I select it to sync playlists will it wipe out and replace all of my content with the iTunes library?

icruise · Jun 23, 2006, 04:50 AM

What are you afraid of? Even if it deletes something, it'll just recopy it to the iPod. It's not going to reset your ipod to the factory default or anything.

Eriamjh · Jun 23, 2006, 05:47 AM

You don't need to check the "selected playlists only" box unless you have less space on your iPod than you have music in iTunes. Just let it sync. It'll be OK.

sdilley14 · Jun 23, 2006, 05:01 PM

Well I'm afraid it will delete my entire library of music and videos and recopy them because it took forever to load them on in the first place, and I've since deleted all of the iPod format videos off of my hard drive, and it will just be an unnecessary pain to reconvert all of those videos again.

sdilley14 · Jun 23, 2006, 05:04 PM

Also, I only want it to update my playlists rather than my entire library. I don't like plugging in my iPod and then having it just take control of itself and scanning my entire library, and sometimes adding songs and entire albums I don't want cluttering my iPod. I change the order of my playlists and add new songs, etc., and I like to keep my playlists current.

icruise · Jun 23, 2006, 05:39 PM

Yes, syncing playlists is not a bad idea. I do it myself, although that's mostly because I have way too much stuff to fit on an ipod. I'm curious about what you said about it taking forever to copy, though. Are you not using USB2? How long are we talking?

sdilley14 · Jun 24, 2006, 12:51 AM

About 2300 songs taking 10-15 minutes or so to copy. So it doesn't take "forever", but longer than I'd like to wait. I might do it though, I dunno. I just hate to lose the videos especially.

stefanicotine · Jun 25, 2006, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by sdilley14

About 2300 songs taking 10-15 minutes or so to copy. So it doesn't take "forever", but longer than I'd like to wait. I might do it though, I dunno. I just hate to lose the videos especially.

Buh? Are you serious? I have like, 1100 songs, 23 videos (100 megs for most of them), and 920 photos and it only took me like .. maybe 10 minutes. The photos were what took the most time. But just music shouldn't take that long :S

icruise · Jun 25, 2006, 11:55 PM

The reason photos take a while is that they have to be converted before transfer.

10-15 minutes probably isn't an unreasonably long time for that number of songs, though. How many GB are they?

sdilley14 · Jun 26, 2006, 04:03 PM

About 15 gigs of music, took me 10-15 minutes...I didn't keep track though.

ael719 · Jun 26, 2006, 07:34 PM

Is there anyway I can delete video from my computer, but still be able to sync it to my iPod without leaving the video?

sdilley14 · Jun 27, 2006, 04:45 PM

I don't think so. You can't transfer it from your computer to your iPod if it isn't still on your computer. If you have it on your iPod, delete it from your computer then try syncing, it may still stay on the iPod.